Featured News

President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), an overhaul of federal education law, in December of 2015. According to the Ohio Department of Education’s website, “passed with bipartisan support, ESSA represents a shift from broad federal oversight of …

Sign Up for The Best Updates on Ohio Public Education

Public Education Partners (PEP) is a statewide grassroots advocacy group for public school districts and the children and families that they serve. PEP strongly opposes House Bill 512 and views it as an undemocratic law that will, by design, take away …

Something beautiful happened at the Ohio Statehouse recently. Public Education in Ohio was celebrated. It was as if a balmy breeze washed away the criticism and blame cast over our public schools during the past decade. Instead of “from Sea …

‘Tis the season for gift-giving! Public education advocates should celebrate the season by presenting their state lawmakers with copies of one of the most forward-thinking children’s books ever written, Hooray for Diffendoofer Day. This thought-provoking picture book was primarily written …

Public Education Partners (PEP) is a statewide nonprofit that was created to connect and unite advocates that support public school districts and the children and families they serve. The Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding (OCEASF) was organized to …

The U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, is attempting to redefine the meaning and role of public education from what it has been for more than two centuries. She wants to privatize public education and call it “public.” She talks …

September 2017 Legislative Committee Report Getting Involved: If you’ve returned to school with a renewed desire to get involved in education issues, but aren’t sure where to begin, check out the OEA’s Educator-Activist To-Do List here. Most of the suggestions …

Public education advocates across the nation are awakening to the fact that traditional public education is under serious attack and thus are gearing up to fight privatization efforts. Traditional public school advocates can overcome well-connected privatizers when they join together …

Some state officials claim that the students caught up in this problem may be “marginally” proficient and therefore could benefit from the additional intervention in the retention programs. They also argue that the mid-term promotion option will take care of …

I am a college professor and a mother. My Ph.D. is in Lifespan Cognitive Development, and I have taught developmental psychology and educational psychology for 25 years at Syracuse University, Ithaca College and Kenyon College. My children are 5 and …

The Board of Public Education Partners is strongly opposed to tying high school graduation to state-mandated standardized tests. Because the Ohio General Assembly created these new graduation requirements in 2014, one third of Ohio’s Class of 2018 is now at …

Ohio’s largest online charter school, the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT), was paid for 9,000 more students than it should have been paid in 2016, according to an Ohio Department of Education enrollment audit. The Ohio Department of Education told …